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Autarky versus free trade: catching-up and overtaking? : an endogenous growth approach

Teodorescu, Margareta - 2008

One of the fundamental normative questions within international trade theory is whether free trade is better than …

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Die Integration der Länder Mittel- und Osteuropas in die Europäische Union. Gründe und Auswirkungen der Güterströme zwischen beiden Regionen.

Filsinger, Michael J. - 1997

Die jungen Marktwirtschaften der Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas streben nach der Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union.Bereits im April 1998 werden erste Beitrittsverhandlungen mit fünf Ländern aus der Region beginnen. Die ökonomischeProblematik einer Integration der Reformländer in den...

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Ersetzt die Neue Ökonomische Geographie Außenwirtschaftstheorie und Raumwirtschaftstheorie?

Schöler, Klaus - 2010

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Spatial discrimination, nations' size and transportation costs

Andree, Kai - 2010

In this paper we develop a spatial Cournot trade model with two unequally sized countries, using the geographical interpretation of the Hotelling line. We analyze the trade and welfare effects of international trade between these two countries. The welfare analysis indicates that in this...

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Essays in international macroeconomics

Annette Kamps - 2008

This dissertation contributes to several fields of international macroeconomics. Chapter 2 presents a new dataset and new evidence on the invoicing pattern in international trade for a large panel of countries. It goes into detail explaining the motivation to set prices in different currencies,...

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What is the Impact of Income on the Demand for Bushmeat?: a study of the relationship between income and bushmeat near the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania

Postolovska, Iryna - 2010

In Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing levels of bushmeat consumption and unsustainable bushmeat hunting have become one of the central concerns of conservationists. Many conservationists have recently begun to see income growth as a possible strategy to decrease wildlife consumption. This study...

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The Effects of Economic Factors in Determining the Transition Process in Europe and Central Asia

Lopez, David A. - 2010

This paper examines how economic determinants affect foreign direct investment into a sample of Western European and transition countries from 1990 to 2003. The observed differences in the flow of foreign investment into the transition countries, relative to those in Western Europe, provokes the...

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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

theory suggest that they work against efficiency when membership grows too diffuse. To address this issue, this study uses a … model that takes into account existing theory on constrained-optimization in credit unions and theory on the adverse effects …

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Globalization and the Wage-Working Conditions Relationship: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories

Warren, Cael - 2009

efficiency wage or compensating differential theory and (3) whether the wage-working conditions relationship differs between … efficiency wages or a similar theory more accurately explains the behavior of these exporting firms than compensating … support of compensating differential theory, we conclude that both foreign ownership and exogenously imposed improvements in …

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Testing the Integration of U.S.-Canadian Meat and Livestock Markets.

Vollrath, Thomas; Hallahan, Charles - 2006

Price transmission is a critically important issue that affects market enlargement and the unification of Canadian-U.S. agriculture. This study adopts alternative frameworks to examine the nature of cross-border integration in selected meat and livestock markets. The aim is to determine the...

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